Moving items around the Mac OS X menu bar is easy with this MozyMac tutorial. The demonstration appears to take place on a real Mac desktop; be sure to watch the mouse moving the menu bar icons along the top of this video. There is music playing and no other audio, so Muting is optional. Text supplements the video, telling you to hold the Command (apple) button while moving the menu bar icons. A Mac tutorial for beginners and PC users showing how to switch from Windows to macOS. This tutorial covers all of the basics of using macOS including the f. At around 90% the mic starts picking up background noise, probably the Mac disk or fan, and by 100% that background noise is overwhelming. I found that on my MacBook Pro (c. 2008) the mic level at about 75% was good, and I also found it helpful to check the 'Use ambient noise reduction' check box (just below the mic level slider in the System. These topics often include Mac, Android, iOS, and Windows as these are the building blocks of anything we usually work on. You'll often find Mahesh wandering around various tech sites trying to find that 'golden nugget' which could make existing tasks more efficient,. I started into the mac hardware check, and ran a regular scan (not extended), which showed no problems with hardware. So, I assume the missing driver is the only problem. I booted into recovery mode and repaired the disk using disk utility and then tried to reinstall the OS, but it said something like 'there is not a licensed OS on this computer'.
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There's a lot of pressure on the bigger game studios to deliver a top-notch, challenging, lengthy game experience. Aimed squarely at the hardcore players, these games typically feature 40+ hours of play, multiple difficulty levels, and mechanics so sophisticated they're the subject of numberless FAQs. However, sometimes it seems that the industry as a whole has forgotten that as a form of entertainment, games should ideally cater to players of every skill level, and therefore craft experiences that satisfy by a number of different criteria. In other words, folks, they don't all have to be GTA 4.
Enter: Wandering Willows, a game that's simple to play, easy to enjoy, and fun. While some might scoff at its basic ease, it offers just enough to do to be satisfying. Read on for more!
The story here is that you're a hot-air balloonist who's being forced down due to a storm. When you come to, you're on a strange island with a cute little animal following you around. The critter bears a slight resemblance to something you might find in Viva Piñata, and that's just fine. Your character never bothers to question why it's following her around, so neither will you.
You're in a little town called Wandering Willows, and your hot-air balloon is busted up, so you'll need to fix it in order to escape. In order to do this, you'll interact with the island's populace, fulfilling their missions to gain access to the tools you'll need to repair your craft. One of the first bits of dialogue you'll encounter informs you that you're not the only person to have crashed down on the island, and that, who knows? You might just want to stay after all. Now, depending on your personal outlook, you'll either find the cute cast of characters reassuringly non-threatening when they keep telling you that, or you'll start hearing the strains of 'Hotel California' the entire time you're playing Wandering Willows.
Navigation couldn't be simpler. Click, or click-hold to walk around. Click on people to talk with them. Click on objects to pick them up. Click on the UI to open menus, and click again to choose elements. Click, click, clickclickclickclickclickclickclick cliiiiiiiick. Not since Diablo have you clicked so frequently. But this is not a ding against the game; on the contrary, it's a strength!
Looking into your character's various tabs and options — clothing, recipes, and the like — indicates that there may be some depth to the game that casual gameplay might otherwise keep hidden. But let's dive in and examine how it plays. Sir mix a lot i like big.
The first thing you're asked to do in the tutorial mode is to plant some wheat for one of the town's characters, and this process involves nothing more than dragging a seed out of your inventory directly onto a patch of garden dirt and watering it, waiting for a bit, and grabbing the plant that develops. That's it. You won't even have to buy the seeds or the watering can; you just kinda have 'em on you. Completing a task rewards you with the local currency, and Friendship Points, which affect how you interact with the various town members. I'm not sure exactly what this will turn into exactly, but it's always good to have friends.
Now, for tasks that involve procurement of certain types of items, you'll use your little critter friend to help you out. For instance, to grab the fruits from the trees, you'll click on the fruit, but your critter will climb the tree and shake the branch, causing the fruit to drop to the ground. Only then will you be able to pick it up. Similarly, you'll need to dig up various items, and the critter does the digging for you as well.
Even more intriguing, your critter has an always-on display of its personal stats that represent the current level of its abilities. For instance, there is a bar that represents how high it can climb, and every time you get it to climb a tree, the bar fills up a bit more. When it's completely full, your critter is able to climb higher. Likewise, the more it digs, the harder the mound it can dig up.
Another ability your pet exhibits is the way it can charm other critters into dropping items you need. To do this, simply click and hold on another critter (there are a bunch of them about), and a bar starts to fill up while little cartoon hearts fly out from the critter's head. Once the bar is full, the critter leaves an item behind and your pet raises his charm stat. What else can your li'l guy do? I hesitate to even conjecture.
Other tasks you're called upon to perform include baking pies for others, sewing clothing, growing flowers, fetching items, and probably eventually massaging someone's feet. Honestly, the mundane and menial nature of the tasks the inhabitants of Wandering Willows ask you to perform makes the whole thing feel like they're either grooming you for slavery or some kind of pyramid scheme.
But perhaps the greatest strength of Wandering Willows is the fact that it's a completionist's dream game. I tend to fail quite seriously at most RTS games because I can't tear myself away from watching a structure build to actually play the game. I'm all about the pleasure gained from completion. So, being set a simple task, being able to complete it simply, and receiving a nice little ding once the parameters have been met just rubs me the right way. There is a lot of tiny tasks to perform, and I get that jolt to the pleasure center every single time. I don't claim to understand it, I just enjoy it.
And there you have it. The Wandering Willows demo is available on Big Download for both Mac and PC. Enjoy it for what it is!
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Mac users need to think about security, too
Apple's approach to security can be a little bewildering at times. It's a well-trumpeted aspect of the OS, marketed in detail on the website. Mac OS X has integrated smartcard support and Apple has certified the OS under the Common Criteria guidelines; a section of Apple's developer site is devoted to the subject of security.
At the same time, Apple didn't offer cryptographically signed software updates until its hand was forced in July 2002. The company is notorious for boiling down release notes for software updates to 'provides bug fixes and security updates' (although the separate mailings posted to the security-announce list do tend to offer a little more detail). While other Unix distributions tend to patch holes in open-source code relatively quickly, Apple sometimes delays rolling out a security fix in the open-source components of Mac OS X for months or even years.
The phrase 'security through obscurity' gets tossed around from time to time when discussing Mac OS X. The theory is that since Macs still represent a fraction of the available computers on the internet, there's less of an incentive for virus writers, malware authors, spambot harvesters, Comcast sales reps, and other purveyors of electronic evil to harass and attack the platform. Why target 5 percent of the population when you can get much better results by going after Windows?
But the truth is that security through obscurity is a flawed idea. Yes, there are fewer recorded attacks on the Mac platform, but by no means does that make it secure. So what's a Mac user to do? Like the book says, don't panic. In this article we'll take a look at some basic ways you can improve your Mac's security right out of the box.
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If someone can get to your computer, the chances of them acquiring your data just skyrocketed. Physical security is the critical first step in keeping your Mac safe.
Every Mac shipped since 2000 has the ability to set a password in Open Firmware, the code built into PowerPC-based Macs that controls the startup process. (For Intel Macs, Open Firmware is replaced by EFI, which also supports password protection.) A firmware password prevents a user with physical access to the computer from starting up from an optical disk, a network boot volume, a separate drive connected in Target Disk Mode, or into single-user mode. It also requires a password to be entered before the system will start up from its regular boot drive. If you're in an environment where you need a little extra physical security, this is a simple add-on to your security toolkit.
Don't make this your only add-on, though. For one thing, it doesn't prevent anyone from restarting or powering off the computer in question. Far more importantly, it does absolutely nothing to prevent someone from simply lifting the drive and putting it into another Mac, at which point all bets are off.
Fortunately, most desktop Macs offer some means of securing the case itself with a pass-through lock, and every Mac except the MacBook Air* has a slot for a Kensington security lock to help keep the machine itself from wandering. Think of this as the computational equivalent of the Club. It's not meant to stop the hard-core thieves, just to make them move on to the next target.
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* I actually confronted someone about this at a recent Apple Enterprise event. The response was that Apple intended for the Air to be toted around due to its small footprint, so the lock slot was abandoned. Yeah, I had about the same reaction you just did. Mosc nat de vota (prototype) mac os.
Lock your screen
I tend to be in one of three places at work: at my desk, in the server room, or attending a meeting. (As a Mac user, I have evolved beyond the need for restrooms.)
AdvertisementFor the times when I'm not sitting right in front of my computer, I need some way to keep prying eyes and grubby fingers out of my system. The ability to require a password to unlock the screensaver comes in handy here. It's a checkbox setting in the Security pane in System Preferences (we'll look at this pane in more detail below). Set the screensaver to activate when you move the mouse to one of the 'hot corners' of the screen and you're good to go.
Better yet, launch Keychain Access in the /Applications/Utilities folder and, in Preferences, check the box for 'Show Status in Menu Bar.' You'll now have a Keychain menu item with a handy 'Lock Screen' command.
Consider using ACLs
The traditional Unix file permission model is pretty simple. There are three classes of user: you, people in the same group as you, and everybody else. You can restrict the ability to read from, write to, or execute files in a given directory based on those three ownership roles.
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This arrangement works great for relatively simple sharing and control scenarios, but it quickly breaks down when you try to get clever about who has access to what and at what level. Access control lists, or ACLs, are one solution to the problem, and Mac OS X has supported them since 10.4's release. ACLs let you do creative things like share a folder between multiple users while allowing only specific users to delete files from said folder, or you can enable anyone using your computer to read (but not write to) a file in your home directory that only you can update.
The average user probably doesn't need to fiddle around with ACLs, although they're now enabled by default in Leopard (Mac OS X 10.5). Plus, the interplay between multiple levels of permissions can leave even the brightest system administrator scratching his head trying to figure out what they represent.
Still, if you're looking for a way to keep prying eyes away from some of your more sensitive files without losing access to them yourself, ACLs can help you strike the balance. John Siracusa discusses ACL in some depth in his review of Mac OS X 10.4.
